The Yaesu VR-500 is like having a miniature monitoring station in the palm of your hand. The VR-500 is the first to provide wideband coverage plus single sideband capability in such a small and capable package. Coverage is from 100 kHz to 1300 MHz (1.3 GHz) less cellular, in AM, FM-N, FM-W, LSB, USB and CW. You get 1000 regular memories (10x100) plus 10 search band memories, 19 starting point memories, 10 weather memories, 10 dual watch memories and 1 priority memory! You get tuning steps from 50 Hz to 100 kHz.